[a. L. līvor in both senses.]
1. Path. ‘The mark of a blow; lividness, lead-colour’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). Also, the discoloration of skin in a corpse; pl. the parts of skin discolored.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Livor, a black and blew mark in a body, coming of a stroke or blow; also blackness of the eyes coming of humors.
1822–34. Good’s Study Med. (ed. 4), II. 672. The erysipelatous livor … gained ground.
1873. Symonds, Grk. Poets, i. 33. It is the fashion … to praise … even the strange livors of corruption.
1885. Sir R. Christison, Life, I. Autobiog., xiv. 307. Natural cadaveric livor is confined to so thin a layer of tissue that [etc.].
† 2. Ill-will, malignity, spite. Obs.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 74. With unappeaseable wrath and blood-desiring livor, he pressed and trod to pieces the incest marriage-causer.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. i. III. viii. Out of this roote of envy, spring those ferall branches of faction, hatred, livor, emulation.
1675. Baxter, Cath. Theol., I. I. 127. But what a plague livor and faction is [to] the Church and the owners souls, let but these ugly words of his be witness.
